Revolutionary War Research Paper

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The Revolutionary War, or American Revolution, started in Lexington and Concord in April 1775. The first shot was fired in the middle of a fight between colonists and British soldiers. The fighting started because one of the colonists threw a snowball at the soldiers. In the chaos of the fight a shot was fired and a colonist was shot and killed. This shot was known as the shot heard around the world. In the time leading up to the war there were very many conflicts in the colonies between the British troops and the colonists. The tensions were caused by many different things, such as, taxes on the colonies, aggression of the troops, and aggression of the colonists. The colonists didn’t like the military being there, because they were not in